Britain is no country for old men

'That is no country for old men....Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.' W.B.Yeats 'Sailing To Byzantium.' 1926

Monday, 24 January 2022

Britain is a country where Elvis Costello has been making music for almost 50 years and gives it his 'Honest Playlist'

Elvis Costello, who will be 68 years old in the Autumn, hardly an old man, yet neither a young one, has supplied the Guardian with his '...

Friday, 21 January 2022

Will Britain make amends for the wrongs committed against an old soldier called Stephen Close who happened to be gay ?

The ban of LBGT people in the British Army was lifted in 2000, but before that you could be sacked and criminalised for your sexuality loosi...

Friday, 14 January 2022

Britain has lost, but Scotland made that Giant among 20th Century theatre directors, Bill Bryden

Page views : 333 Bill, who has died at the age of 79 was born, the son of Catherine and George in the spring of the third year of the Second...

Thursday, 6 January 2022

Britain says "Goodbye" to the much-loved, brave and remarkable Radio and Television Journalist with a zest for life called Gary Burgess

Page views : 169 Gary, who has died at the age of 46, succumbed to his cancer at Jersey Hospice on New Year's Day, after having forged a...

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...............................JohnBoy: A 70+ post-Second World War baby-boomer looking for and finding some surprising answers to the question : "Is Britain no country for Old Men ?"

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